Labyrinth metasurface absorber for ultra-high-sensitivity terahertz thin film sensing

dc.contributor.authorJáuregui López, Irati
dc.contributor.authorRodríguez Ulibarri, Pablo
dc.contributor.authorUrrutia Azcona, Aitor
dc.contributor.authorKuznetsov, Sergei A.
dc.contributor.authorBeruete Díaz, Miguel
dc.contributor.departmentIngeniaritza Elektrikoa, Elektronikoaren eta Telekomunikazio Ingeniaritzareneu
dc.contributor.departmentInstitute of Smart Cities - ISCen
dc.contributor.departmentIngeniería Eléctrica, Electrónica y de Comunicaciónes_ES
dc.date.accessioned2018-09-04T12:13:53Z
dc.date.available2019-08-31T23:00:12Z
dc.date.issued2018
dc.description.abstractIn this work, a labyrinth metasurface sensor operating at the low‐frequency edge of the THz band is presented. Its intricate shape leads to a high electric field confinement on the surface of the structure, resulting in ultrasensitive performance, able to detect samples of the order of tens of nanometers at a wavelength of the order of millimeters (i.e., five orders of magnitude larger). The sensing capabilities of the labyrinth metasurface are evaluated numerically and experimentally by covering the metallic face with tin dioxide (SnO2) thin films with thicknesses ranging from 24 to 345 nm. A redshift of the resonant frequency is observed as the analyte thickness increases, until reaching a thickness of 20 μm, where the response saturates. A maximum sensitivity of more than 800 and a figure of merit near 4500 nm−1 are achieved, allowing discriminating differences in the SnO2 thickness of less than 25 nm, and improving previous works by a factor of 35. This result can open a new paradigm of ultrasensitive devices based on intricate metageometries overcoming the limitations of classical metasurface sensor designs based on periodic metaatoms.en
dc.description.sponsorshipThe authors acknowledge support from the Spanish Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad (MINECO) under Contract TEC2014-51902-C2-2-R, the NSU program 5-100 established by the Russian Ministry of Education and Science, and the State Assignment Program of the Rzhanov Institute of Semiconductor Physics SB RAS (Project No. 0306-2016-0020).en
dc.embargo.lift2019-08-31
dc.embargo.terms2019-08-31
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dc.identifier.citationJáuregui‐López, I. , Rodríguez‐Ulibarri, P. , Urrutia, A. , Kuznetsov, S. A. and Beruete, M. (2018), Labyrinth Metasurface Absorber for Ultra‐High‐Sensitivity Terahertz Thin Film Sensing. Phys. Status Solidi RRL. . doi:10.1002/pssr.201800375en
dc.identifier.doi10.1002/pssr.201800375
dc.identifier.issn1862-6270 (Electronic)
dc.identifier.urihttps://academica-e.unavarra.es/handle/2454/30468
dc.language.isoengen
dc.publisherWileyen
dc.relation.ispartofPhysica Status Solidi - Rapid Research Letters, 2018, 1800375en
dc.relation.projectIDinfo:eu-repo/grantAgreement/MINECO//TEC2014-51902-C2-2-R/ES/
dc.relation.publisherversionhttps://doi.org/10.1002/pssr.201800375
dc.rights© 2018 WILEY‐VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheimen
dc.rights.accessRightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
dc.subjectMetasurfacesen
dc.subjectSensingen
dc.subjectTerahertzen
dc.subjectThin filmsen
dc.titleLabyrinth metasurface absorber for ultra-high-sensitivity terahertz thin film sensingen
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